Sekou Franklin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447322450
- eISBN:
- 9781447322474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447322450.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
This chapter focuses on green jobs programs that targeted low-income residents, especially Blacks living in chronically distressed communities. The period under study begins with the date the United ...
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This chapter focuses on green jobs programs that targeted low-income residents, especially Blacks living in chronically distressed communities. The period under study begins with the date the United States Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and continues until the height of the congressional budget fights in March 2011. This chapter argues that green jobs programs targeting a marginalized workforce were more likely to be adopted in cities where advocates were able to leverage municipal officials, especially mayors, and collaborate with local economic and racial justice activists on clean energy and other community development projects. Advocates also repositioned the sustainable development (and green jobs) agenda within the broader framework of community development. The success of this repositioning strategy depended on cultivating cross-sector alliances between environmentalists, labor, economic and racial justice groups, and civil rights organizations in support of green jobs programs.Less
This chapter focuses on green jobs programs that targeted low-income residents, especially Blacks living in chronically distressed communities. The period under study begins with the date the United States Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and continues until the height of the congressional budget fights in March 2011. This chapter argues that green jobs programs targeting a marginalized workforce were more likely to be adopted in cities where advocates were able to leverage municipal officials, especially mayors, and collaborate with local economic and racial justice activists on clean energy and other community development projects. Advocates also repositioned the sustainable development (and green jobs) agenda within the broader framework of community development. The success of this repositioning strategy depended on cultivating cross-sector alliances between environmentalists, labor, economic and racial justice groups, and civil rights organizations in support of green jobs programs.
Jessica Smartt Gullion
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029766
- eISBN:
- 9780262329798
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029766.003.0002
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This chapter outlines the history of oil and gas development in the United States, with emphasis on Texas oil and gas culture. Provided are the background to regulation of this industry to ...
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This chapter outlines the history of oil and gas development in the United States, with emphasis on Texas oil and gas culture. Provided are the background to regulation of this industry to demonstrate how that history impacts today’s natural gas laws. Also included is a discussion of US energy policy and the calls for “energy independence.”Less
This chapter outlines the history of oil and gas development in the United States, with emphasis on Texas oil and gas culture. Provided are the background to regulation of this industry to demonstrate how that history impacts today’s natural gas laws. Also included is a discussion of US energy policy and the calls for “energy independence.”
